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† ˈsaler Obs.
Also 4 salure, 5 salere, sallyer, 5–6 seler. See also salt-cellar.
[a. OF. sal(l)iere fem., mod.F. salière (= Pr. saliera, saleira, It. saliera), also OF. salier masc.:—L. salāriam, -um, properly adj. ‘pertaining to salt’; cf. salary n.]
A salt-cellar.
13..Coer de L. 1099 The saler on the table stood. 13..Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 886 Sanap, & salure, & syluer-in sponez. 1439in Archæol. XXI. 36, ij Salers of gold, whereof yt oon ys a man and yt other a woman, holdyng y⊇ salers in her hondes. c1475Babees Bk. (1868) 7 The salte also touche nat in his salere Withe nokyns mete. c1500For to serve a Lord ibid. 368 The boteler or panter shall sette the seler in the myddys of the tabull accordyng to the place where the principall soverain shalle sette, and sette his brede iuste couched unto the salte-seler. |